Work at the moment

Erm it's been rather a hectic time for me recently animation wise. I have been extremely overwhelmed with my projects.

I managed to hand in a file of the pig flying animation film to be looked at recently and should hopefully get to completing the necessary changes and that will then be a completion of the job. I shall finally be able to pot some freelance work up.

In terms of the film though I do wish I had a bigger deadline as the pigs animation isn't at the level of animation quality I would have hoped for. I look forward to seing it up on the clients website though, and getting some recognition for my work.

As of this week though I was set 4 speaking/acting animations or the computer game. Three are fairly small and simply done, however I was set a 20 odd second animation piece with three characters interacting, so it was a nice chance to explore this area more, I have enjoyed doing it. It has taken me I beleive 3days to do which I'm pretty proud of because I have worked my butt off on this one. It looks pretty nice now it just needs a bit of cleaning up which I plan to finish tonight and then I hand it in and move onto the mini ones, in which I have to produce one a day to meet the deadline on Friday. 

Also I unforunately ad to turn down yet gain another job this week. I seem to keep beingapproached now which is realy nice, but some are areas I don't know a lot about so like this one I amtigh for time with other things so without knowing all the techniqe it would be hrd to even concier.

Random post to say what's going on with me at the moment.

I have been completely crammed with work over the last couple of months. Since braking from University I have had a really stress full and busy summer with animation.

On the first 3 or 4 weeks I worked solid on more game animation, this particular task I had to do was the most challenging I have had I feel. It took me a while to get that one complete.

As the weeks went by I decided to try and make some Internet presence for myself so I signed up on linked in, animated buzz and also posted a couple of videos on Vimeo. From this really amazingly I have made allot of really friendly, encouraging and inspiring people.

Also as time goes I like to check out companies and also see what kind of freelance work is out there. I haven't yet applied for any myself as I don't have much work to show them at the moment.

About 3 weeks ago I got a random urge and wanted to see whether any local companies would be interested in any animation done for them. I emailed around 13 I think and from that I received 8 responses 2 were that they wouldn't need that sort of thing and a couple interested to know more but strangely never went further. I managed to get 3 offers though. One was unfortunately technical animation done using coding which wasn't my area so I had to refuse. The other two however were really good offers.

1) The first is a promo film by Fresh Fish design, for this I have been assigned piece on a local area of thanit.

2) The second is to produce a selection of 2d flash animated logos, in which components move and come together to form the logo.

The promo film I was only assigned 3 weeks so it is very tough going, I am in the last week now and the deadline is approaching quickly, I hope to get it done in time, and then I will finaly be able to have some freelance work I can display rather than hiding it like the game as I don't know if I can yet.

The logo's weren't a very pressing Holman design so I am casually doing them when I can fit them into my schedule. I hope to get a selection for them of around 10 by the end of the summer so early September. I look forward to showing them too as so far they are looking nice.

Finaly I have also been approached by two people for other projects. I had to unfortunately refuse the first as it would have required me having to commute or rent a hotel which wouldn't have been feasible for me. The second I haven't heard anything back from so I don't know if that's going anywhere.

I look forward to posting some videos when I have finished each project.